This and that for your Thursday reading.
- Susan Delacourt is far too kind to the Cons in suggesting they've made some reasonable case based on "value" during their time in office. So let's serve up a reminder of, say, the CRA cuts that have led to $7 billion in back taxes going uncollected. Or a stimulus program that deliberately prioritized PR over value for money. Or their proud stewardship of the least efficient climate change programs on the planet.
Need I go on?
- Which isn't to say that their ethical failings don't also make for a compelling reason to want to be rid of the Harper Cons.
- Alice points out what looks to be a first in Canadian political advertising, as the NDP has managed to use QR codes on billboards to direct interested passersby to their new Quebec ads. Which makes for a particularly interesting development given that both the billboards and the ads themselves are decidedly simplistic - but it's well worth keeping an eye out for the NDP's level of success in reaching new demographics through higher-tech advertising techniques.
- Finally, David Forbes is the latest to make the case for rentn controls in Saskatchewan. (A nice read for the start of Seven Days for Rent Control.) And in the opposite corner, David Seymour makes the profound counterpoint that rent controls which don't apply to all rent...don't apply to all rent. This is not a close bout.
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